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110. Carex mendocinensis Olney. 

 Alendocino Sedge. Fig. 786. 



Carev cinnamomea Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 396. 1S68; not Boott 1846. 

 Carex- mendocinensis Olney; W. Boott in S. Wats. Dot. Calif. 2: 249. 1880. 

 Carex debiliformis Mackenzie, Bull. Torrey Club 37: 244. 1910. 



Cespitose from elongated rootstocks, the culms slender, 3-8 

 dm. high, much exceeding the leaves, reddish-purple at base. 

 Leaves sparsely pubescent, the culm blades 1.75-3 mm. wide, 

 5-12 cm. long, those of the sterile shoots somewhat wider and 

 1.5-3.5 dm. long; terminal spike 2-3.5 cm. long, staminate or with 

 a few perigynia; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, slender, erect, linear, 

 1.5-4 cm. long, 3.5-5 mm. wide, closely flowered above, more 

 loosely towards the base, the 20-40 perigynia appressed-ascending ; 

 lowest bract about equalling culm, sheathing; scales somewhat 

 exceeded by perigynia, ovate, obtuse or short cuspidate, cinnamon- 

 brown with broad hyaline margins ; perigynia 3.5-5 mm. long, 

 1.5 mm. wide, oblong-obovoid, somewhat flattened, triangular, 

 membranaceous, lightly nerved, glabrous or minutely puberulent, 

 somewhat tapering at base, abruptly beaked, the beak 0.5 mm. 

 long, bidentat,e; achenes triangular; style jointed with achene; 

 stigmas 3. 



Along streams, Transition Zone; Coast Ranges of northwestern Cali- 

 fornia and southwestern Oregon. Type locality: Mendocino City, Cali- 

 fornia. 



111. Carex lemmoni W. Boott. Lemmon's 



Sedge. 



Fig. 



w. 



787. 



Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 



2: 



Carex fidva hornschuchiana 



250. 1800; not Boott. 

 Carex lemmoni W. Boott, Bot. Gaz. 9: 93. 1884. 

 Carex abramsii Mackenzie, Bull. Torrey Club 36: 482. 1909. 



Rootstocks slender, more or less elongated, the 

 culms slender, 4-8 dm. high, smooth, exceeding leaves, 

 fibrillose at base. Leaves mostly clustered near base, 

 the blades flat, 1.75-4 mm. wide, erect or ascending; 

 staminate spike solitary, 6-25 mm. long, 2.5-4 mm. 

 wide, sessile or short-peduncled ; pistillate spikes 2-4, 

 linear-oblong, 0.5-2 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, 5-30- 

 flowered, often staminate at apex, the upper approxi- 

 mate, the lower separate and exsert-peduncled ; bracts 

 long sheathing; scales ovate, obtusish, exceeded by peri- 

 gynia, reddish-brown with lighter center and broad 

 hyaline margins ; perigynia 3.5 mm. long or less, tri- 

 angular, closely enveloping achene, puncticulate, 

 glabrous, varying from green and slightly purplish- 

 black tinged to purplish black, obscurely nerved, taper- 

 ing at base, abruptly beaked, the beak 1 mm. long, 

 sparingly ciliate-serrulate, bidentulate, slightly hyaline 

 at mouth; achenes triangular, jointed with the slender 

 style ; stigmas 3. 



Confined to Sierra Nevada of California from Tehama to Tu- 

 lare Comities and the San Bernardino and .San Jacinto Moun- 

 tains of southern California; Transition Zone. Type locality: 

 Sierra Nevada. 



112. Carex luzulina Olney. 

 Luztila-like Sedge. Fig. 788. 



Carex luzulina Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 395. 1868. 



Carex cherokcensis W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 250. 1880; not 



Schw. 

 Carex albida Bailey, Mem. Torrey Club 1: 9. 1889. 



Culms densely cespitose, 1.5-7.5 dm. high. Leaves near 

 the base, the blades soon spreading, stiff, 3-7 mm. wide; 

 spikes 3-6. the uppermost staminate, the upper clustered, the 

 lower widelv separated on long-exserted peduncles, the 

 lateral pistillate, oblong, 6-8 mm. wide, not compound at 

 base; bracts long sheathing, the blades short; scales 9btuse 

 or acutish. exceeded by perigynia, reddish brown ; perigynia 

 3.75-5 mm. long, the body compressed-triangular, closely 

 enveloping the achene, not inflated or hispidulous, obsoletely 

 nerved, contracted into the short, sparingly ciliate-serrulate, 

 shallowly bidentate beak; achenes triangular, jointed with the 

 slender style ; stiginas 3. 



This and the preceding and following sjiecies are very closely related. 

 Mountain meadows and bogs, Transition and Canadian Zones; in the 

 Coast Ranges of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. 

 Type locality: Mendocino City, California. 



